Week 6 - "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Failed States" "The Self-Fulfilling Prophecy of Failed States: Somalia, State Collapse and the Global War on Terror" A paper presented during the weekly Colloquium. Over recent decades, several states have experienced mounting difficulties in fulfilling classic state-functions such as guaranteeing territorial integrity and law and order. Since 11 September 2001, this phenomenon has been particularly associated with terrorism, trans-border criminality and global instability. Through analysis of America's SomaliAuthor(s): No creator set

Democracy, Diversity, Religion [Audio] Speaker(s): Professor Charles Taylor | Professor Charles Taylor will look at the constant temptation for modern democracies to veer towards exclusion. This is despite them being founded on a principle of inclusion, and is due to a weakness built into motivations which democracies draw upon. Having firmly established this context, Professor Taylor will discuss the exclusionary moves we have seen in many Western democracies which have targeted (unfamiliar) religions. Why this intense focus and howAuthor(s): No creator set

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Sign language launches communication, minimizes frustration PULLMAN, Wash. - Infant/young toddler communication is often a challenge for everyone involved. It can include hand waving, indistinguishable noises, crying, screaming and tantrums. On the other side of the equation, parents, siblings and babysitters are trying to figure out what the little tikes want.
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McMaster's downtown Health Campus McMaster broke ground on its downtown Health Campus Dec. 3 which, when complete, will see 54,000 patient visits and 4,000 McMaster students pass through each year.
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Degrees of change Four of UNSW's original Colombo Plan students return to campus in 2012 and reflect on what their degrees meant to them and their countries.Author(s): No creator set

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ANU and ABC 666 Psychology Week Forum: Have we fallen out of love with women? The glass ceiling is a term commonly used to refer to the complex and ill-defined barrier apparently separating many women from the very top levels of the workforce. To succeed at the top, women may have no choice but to put aside their feminine qualities and attributes, and assume an identity that is more traditionally male.
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To the lay person, it might seem surprising that there is any problem with the recognition of higher taxa. The very existence of long-established vernacular names for inclusive groupings of species (e.g. finches, thrushes, parrots and hawks as distinct groups of birds) suggests that higher taxa are self-evident. Accordingly, the task of the taxonomist might seem merely to consist of recognising these groupings and assembling them in a hierarchy of increasingly inclusive categories.

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This unit introduces the topic of vectors. The subject is developed without assuming you have come across it before, but the unit assumes that you have previously had a basic grounding in algebra and trigonometry, and how to use Cartesian coordinates for specifying a point in a plane.

The main teaching text of this unit is provided in the workbook below. The answers to the exercises that you'll find throughout the workbook are given in the answer book. You can access it by clicking on the link under the workbook.